According to atheist Richard Dawkins, evolution and a belief in God are incompatible. I agree with the statement that Dawkins made. In the bible, God created both animals and man, separately. Evolution states that human beings are closely related to apes To believe in both evolution and what God has created is a huge contradiction.
If Thomas Aquinas (a believer that the existence of God can be proven through reason) were still alive today, I think he would disagree with Dawkins in this statement. Although he seems to believe in God, it doesn't sound like he does in his "proofs". There are many claims in his written arguments that can be used to say that evolution and a belief in God are compatible. For example, Aquinas states "... that which does not exist only begins to exist by something already existing". This could be used to prove that human beings may have come from apes because they existed before human beings existed.
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